Maryam
Ivette
Parhizkar

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Maryam Ivette Parhizkar is a writer, scholar, educator, curator and translator. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in NACLA Report on the Americas, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, New England Review, ASAP/J, Theatre, Jewish Currents, Social Text Online, The Rumpus, The Offing, Academy of American Poets Poet-a-Day, and elsewhere. She is the author of three poetry and essay chapbooks, most recently Somewhere Else the Sun is Falling into Someone’s Eyes (Belladonna* Collaborative, 2019).  Her comparative interdisciplinary research centers twentieth- and twenty-first century literature, art and performance in the Americas. This work largely concerns the affective dimensions of colonialism and U.S. empire in diasporic aesthetics. Her work has been supported by the Deans Emerging Research Scholar Award and Prize Teaching Fellowship at Yale, a Poetry Project Curatorial Fellowship, and a CantoMundo Fellowship for Latinx poets. 

With the U.S. Central American collective Tierra Narrative, Maryam has co-curated transnational literatures and works in translation from throughout the Americas for The Poetry Project and FENCE magazine. Most recently, she produced and co-created the Tierra Narrative multimedia film project Que hora es en el reloj del mundo? / What Time is it on the Clock of the World? (2024) for the Park Avenue Armory and Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. 

Since 2021, Maryam has taught virtual critical-creative writing workshops that have been taken by artists, scholars, and writers from around the world. Learn more about her workshop offerings here.

Maryam grew up in the Alief neighborhood of Houston, Texas with familial roots in eastern El Salvador and northern Iran. She currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where she is completing a Ph.D. in American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University.